While reading this week’s reading requirement, one thing really resonated with me.

The

idea and the concept of student motivation. I have always been an advocate of such concept

since, and from personal experience of both ends, having more motivation will definitely give

the students more confidence and courage to learn more. Motivated students, especially when

having intrinsic motivation, will push themselves more to learn and overcome certain obstacles.

It is our job as educators to motivate our students enough for them to build that intrinsic

motivation to ensure a better learning experience, and a better classroom environment in general.

Also, as mentioned in chapter 8 of Crookes (2017), we should include that motivation in

our feedback to our students. I remember an approach that we learned a year ago in this program

by the name of “The sandwich approach”. This approach taught us that we should start by giving

good and motivational feedback at the beginning of the feedback process, then include some

points that need to be improved, then end the feedback with more positive points. By doing this,

the students will be more motivated by the positive and good points that outweigh the negative

ones. That will make the feedback more helpful and beneficial than if it was all red marks and

highlights.